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Dear SrI Narayanan:

At 05:51 AM 5/22/03 -0000, you wrote:
>Can someone enlighten me on the difference between shloka and 
>strotra?
>adiyen,
>Narayanan

ShlOkam is an individual verse in Sanskrit 
set to particular metre. 

SthOthram is a group of verses in praise usually of 
a God or Goddess or an AchAryan. Many of them are
composed by AchAryAs or great poets. 

If this sthOthram has 8 verses , it is an octet 
with the Sanskrit name of Ashtakam. The twenty verse
containing sthOthram is called Vimsathi. The one with 
fifty verses is known as PanchAsath. The one with 
100 sthuthi slOkams ( eulogies) is known as Sathakam .
The longest SthOthram has 1000 SlOkams and is known as
Sahasram.

Some examples of these sthOthrams are:

1.SrI Sudarsana Ashtakam about Lord Sudarsanar

2.YathirAja Vimsathy about AchArya RaamAnujA ;
Gopala Vimsathy is about SrI Raaja veNu GopAlan.

3.VaradarAja PanchAsath about Lord VaradarAja of Kaanchipuram

4.Achyutha sathakam about Lord DevanAthan of ThiruvahIndhrapuram ,
a dhivya dEsam near Cuddalore.

5. Lakshmi Sahsaram about Goddess SrI Devi.

V.Sadagopan 







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